There’s a certain charm in finding an abandoned place like this. So it would be easy to write it off, but let’s not be too hasty. In Malta what you get is a building that now seems to serve no purpose other than being a luxury sparrow nesting site. There’d be signs everywhere, over-priced car parking, lots of old people hanging around and a cafe serving gut-busting scones. In the UK this would have been snapped up my the National Trust or English Heritage long ago. It’s rather typical of Malta, looking a little bit sad and lonely as alot of the historical buildings can on this island. It’s a big old beautiful building that’s for sure, but that’s about it. I’d not heard of any palaces on Malta, so they hooked my in without a second thought.Īnd to be honest, if I’d read about Selmun Palace in advance, I’d question if we’d have dropped by. I’m pretty easily distracted at the best of times, but when someone shoves up a big brown sign with words like that on it I’m in. Unlike the stories of ancient explorers, there was no guiding star, man with magic beans or divine intervention that got us to turn off the route to our original destination, but a big brown sign that said ‘SELMUN PALACE, NEXT RIGHT’. We popped over to Selmun Palace on one of those impulsive changes of directions that typify great adventures. It now sits as a somewhat ghostly post-disaster-style building. There is a hotel just behind the palace, which was owned by Air Malta before closing in 2011. Although it looks like a military building, it was actually used as a meeting place of the Knights of the Order of Saint John who would use it as their summer hunting residence. Selmun Palace was built in 1783 on a plan designed by architect Domenico Cachia. Cats, cat everywhere, lots of friendly cats □.The ghostly remains of an abandoned hotel behind it.I mean, it’s a big old tower that looks like it’s been built in Minecraft.There is a great little walk down the path behind the tower down towards the sea.
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